with all due respect, what a buncha crap.
how come y'all never use occam's razor? it's more like the reverse.
you don't NEED conspiracy theory to understand what's happening: north korea has called our bluff - successfully.
we are afraid to escalate because they're unpredictable - and very well might respond to, say, a limited strike on their reactor with, say, a hit on Seoul.
we will have to negotiate, and we will have to buy them off.
china and russia know this, and so they're not rushing to help (if they truly believed there might be a war they would probably get off their ass to stop it).
meanwhile the drive towards missile defense was well underway before this development in the crisis - remember, this was the rationale for our scrapping the ABM treaty, Bush's first big foreign policy move; it has been a pet project of rumsfeld's since he chaired a commission on it under clinton; and in general had a full head of steam -- even before ALL the funding requests were approved in the post-9/11 military bonanza/feeding frenzy (and also before the republican trifecta was completed in the fall of 2002)
so there's no credible reason to think missile defense proponents would endanger the US in order to get approval for their systems. they don't and didn't need to.
i gotta say that to be truly satisfying a conspiracy theory should fit the facts a little more
(reminiscent of the claim that the republicans sabotaged Wellstone's plane WHILE THEY WERE KICKING HIS ASS IN THE POLLS)
huh, kicking wellstones ass?
"Wellstone, in taking up opposition to the Invasion of Iraq, surged in the polls, going from a tie to 7-9% ahead. This was the beginning of the opposition, not the end, Wellstone's victory was to be a rejection of the warmongers, but not now, he's gone; a turning point it is, but for whom, or toward which direction, remains unknown."
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how come y'all never use occam's razor? it's more like the reverse.
you don't NEED conspiracy theory to understand what's happening: north korea has called our bluff - successfully.
we are afraid to escalate because they're unpredictable - and very well might respond to, say, a limited strike on their reactor with, say, a hit on Seoul.
we will have to negotiate, and we will have to buy them off.
china and russia know this, and so they're not rushing to help (if they truly believed there might be a war they would probably get off their ass to stop it).
meanwhile the drive towards missile defense was well underway before this development in the crisis - remember, this was the rationale for our scrapping the ABM treaty, Bush's first big foreign policy move; it has been a pet project of rumsfeld's since he chaired a commission on it under clinton; and in general had a full head of steam -- even before ALL the funding requests were approved in the post-9/11 military bonanza/feeding frenzy (and also before the republican trifecta was completed in the fall of 2002)
so there's no credible reason to think missile defense proponents would endanger the US in order to get approval for their systems. they don't and didn't need to.
i gotta say that to be truly satisfying a conspiracy theory should fit the facts a little more
(reminiscent of the claim that the republicans sabotaged Wellstone's plane WHILE THEY WERE KICKING HIS ASS IN THE POLLS)
- big jimmy 3-25-2003 2:29 am
huh, kicking wellstones ass?
- dave 3-25-2003 6:25 am [add a comment]
ok, my bad. didn't realize there had been a surge. prior to that my recollection is that he was doing quite poorly for an incumbent.
- big jimmy 3-27-2003 10:45 am [add a comment]